CA company files charges against man for using his t-shirt to swat their $1350 drone to the ground

[Xithras]

128. Nope.

First off, I live in Modesto, so if I called the police they wouldn't do anything. Our police department doesn't send officers out to property crimes (they just write up a report over the phone). If they won't come out for a burglary, stolen vehicle, or smashed window, why would they come out over a broken toy? The only reason to call the police over something like this would be to get a police report number for an insurance claim, and toys generally aren't insured.

Second, I've always been the kind of guy who stands up to the neighborhood asshole. When I see a racist, I'm the guy who stands up and berates the racist in public. When I see a bully, I'm the guy who calls him out and, if needed, gets physical with him (that last bit got me into a lot of fights in high school, but also made me a lot of friends among the previously bullied). If you do some searches back through my posting history, you'll find that I'm the type who chained himself across the roads with Judi Bari during Redwood Summer and went toe to toe with loggers who were threatening to kill us, right to our faces, for putting their livelihood at risk. I'm not the meek type. If some drunk bully harassed my kid and smashed one of his toys just to be a jerk, we'd have a very serious problem.